Value-Based Purchasing: Hospitals Navigate a New Financial Era

Adapting to value-based purchasing has been challenging for many healthcare organizations, and the transition has impacted some rural hospitals especially hard. The following whitepaper focuses primarily on the areas of patient experience and outcomes, while also offering information, recommendations and examples of tactics that are helping hospitals adapt and improve. Learn about the benefits of various types of rounding, a simple technique to reduce readmissions, training and retaining staff, and improving patient and staff satisfaction.

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SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Formally known as The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn-but better known to our patients and Brooklyn neighbors as SUNY Downstate Medical Center-we are older than the Brooklyn Bridge. We trace our roots back to 1860, when a school of medicine was founded at the Long Island College Hospital.

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whitePaper | March 24, 2022

2021 was a challenging year in cybersecurity with several high-profile compromises involving large vendors and large-scale vulnerabilities.

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The State of Healthcare Performance Improvement

whitePaper | November 8, 2019

The report provides healthcare leaders with 4 actionable strategies, supported by successful practices that combine performance improvement tactics, technology and survey of hospital and health system leaders on the state of performance improvement and cost transformation efforts within their organizations.

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NowCoping with healthcare's talent shortage — 10 must-reads

whitePaper | December 10, 2022

Healthcare’s workforce is in crisis. Waves of employee departures amid a once-in-a-century public health crisis have left hospitals all over the nation scrambling to fill critical roles across the enterprise.

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The critical importance of interoperabilityin health care

whitePaper | August 3, 2022

Stages 1 and 2 of the Meaningful Use guidelines incented healthcare organizations to adopt EHR technology, but they did not offer best practices for how the accumulated patient data should be handled.

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The cultural shift to smart manufacturing in the medical device industry

whitePaper | February 22, 2023

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier.

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Ground Ambulance Services in the United States

whitePaper | February 23, 2022

Currently, no federal law protects consumers against “surprise” bills from out-of-network ground ambulance providers. Some state and local governments regulate ground ambulance surprise billing practices.

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Spotlight

SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Formally known as The State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn-but better known to our patients and Brooklyn neighbors as SUNY Downstate Medical Center-we are older than the Brooklyn Bridge. We trace our roots back to 1860, when a school of medicine was founded at the Long Island College Hospital.

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